Is Crossref down?

No reported issues

From status.crossref.org · checked 4 minutes ago · every 5 minutes

An email when it goes down, and when it’s back.

As of 03:36 UTC on 12 November 2026, Crossref's status page reports no issues. Its last reported problem was on 11 November 2026: “Partial System Outage”, major outage, for 5 min from 16:22 UTC.

Last problem: 11 Nov · 5 min
Problems, last 30 days: 135
Typical incident: 10 min
Longest in 90 days: 28 h 58 min · 4 Oct

Uptime

Crossref, last 30 days

94.89 %

Oct 14 Today

Biggest dip: Crossref, 1.6 h of major outage on Nov 8.

Incidents

Started in the last 7 days

FSSMTWToday

This week Week before

Latest: Crossref, major outage on Nov 11.

Recovery

Median time back online

10 min

30 days ago Today

132 of 135 were over within an hour. Each dot is one incident; the dashed line is the median.

Components 31

All online

APIs 8 parts

Public REST API
Polite REST API
OAI-PMH
XML API
OpenURL
Crossmark dialog server
Public content negotiation
Polite content negotiation

Sites 4 parts

Crossref website
Crossref support
Metadata search
Participation reports

Meta 2 parts

deliberately-unreliable server
Demo Auth

Metadata Plus 6 parts

Plus REST API
Plus OAI-PMH
XML Snapshots
JSON Snapshots
Plus content negotiation
Key Manager

Metadata files 3 parts

Open Funder Registry
Retraction Watch
Annual public data files

Content Registration 4 parts

Admin tool
Test admin tool
Web deposit form
New Metadata Manager

Integrations and external dependencies 4 parts

Handle servers
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AWS cloudfront
ORCID Auto-update

Last 90 days

147 incidents in 48 days tracked · no reported issues 94.6% of the time · typical incident 10 min

Aug 15 Today (UTC)

Recent incidents

Times in UTC

Nov 11
· 16:22
Major outage
Partial System Outage 5 min
Nov 11
· 16:12
Major outage
Partial System Outage 5 min
Nov 11
· 15:07
Major outage
Partial System Outage 20 min
Nov 11
· 12:33
Major outage
Partial System Outage 15 min
Nov 11
· 10:03
Major outage
Partial System Outage 5 min
Nov 11
· 05:38
Major outage
Partial System Outage 5 min
Nov 11
· 05:08
Major outage
Partial System Outage 25 min
Nov 11
· 03:23
Major outage
Partial System Outage 20 min
Nov 10
· 15:03
Maintenance
10 November - weekly maintenance, release v0.298.0 5 min
Nov 10
· 10:23
Major outage
Partial System Outage 10 min

All incidents on status.crossref.org ↗

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